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New year's stream

Because 2025 sucked so much I have decided to actually bother celebrating the beginning of 2026. To this end, if you'd like to watch me play the entirety of Halo: Combat Evolved, I intend to do tha...

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Merry christmas + another teaser

Congratulations on (nearly) making it through another year, happy holidays to anyone who's celebrating them, and thank you all so much for everything.

I've already thanked you all a thousand ...

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Well, at least that's over.

CW: Pet death

Hey folks, hope your holidays are going well, assuming you're having them. Things have been rough for me and I need to share a little about it.

A couple months ago, I had ...

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Preliminary findings: Compupro 8/16

Got an item; don't know if I'll get it working soon or not so I figure I should share it.

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Real big camera hours

(in case you don't feel like reading all this, here's the Call To Action: if you have any triax cables with the big plugs and would like to donate or at least sell them for less than ebay ...

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Side channel vid + phone camera hijinks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x01_PPdPiqY

Trying to record more of my projects, and also wanted to experi...

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Video: Intro to Cash Registers

Hey! It's the next video in the previously created series! And it's not the one you expected! Probably!

I explain all my reasoning in the video so I won't rehash it here, but in short, this w...

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Update: huh! that's a lot of linkages

nobody here minds getting a lot of emails from me right? okay cool glad to hear it. i thought you'd all like to see this

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happy halloween

i'm gonna stream some spooky games on my side channel in a bit if you're into that. things been rough lately for...

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Video: Retail Hardware

Okay! Yes! I'm still alive! It's been complicated but I'm still over here doing things! In fact, I did this! I have no idea if I will do more videos in this series, but the probability is high sinc...

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Video: Little Guys Episode 13

We're so back, it seems.

I've been working hard for weeks with nothing to show for it - shot a video the other day, then had to reshoot 2/3rds of it, then just couldn't bring myself to edit i...

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Still kickin

Noticed yesterday it's been a month since my last video and a couple people asked if I'm still alive, so: Yeah. It's been a really tough year, for a variety of different reasons, nothing major, but...

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Let's Try This Again: LPX!

Okay! Alright! Here we go! This is a significantly overhauled version of the LPX video; I made a bunch of adjustments, added some jokes+gags, and shot about ten minutes of new footage that change t...

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boy sometimes you just look silly

Okay, so, I just uploaded a new revision of the LPX video where I pointed out that the XT had 8 slots and not 7, a really silly factual error that I should have caught... and before I could ref...

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Video: LPX (updated)

New version, fixed some minor errors and one big factual one lol (XT had 8 slots, not 7)

haven't thought of a name for this one yet and it's kind of a mishmash of several different incomplete...

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BTS: LPX teardown fail

I'm working on a script right now about a weird intermediate PC form factor standard called "LPX" that arose at roughly the same time as "baby AT" but was totally unknown at the time, due to being ...

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Schedule, etc.

I always feel compelled to justify when I release a video publicly without any real pre-release period on Patreon. In this case it'd been over a month since my last public release and I had to take...

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Video: The Empeg Car

I've been sitting on these things for two years trying to find a spicy way to cover them but since I don't own a car with a normal radio mount it was never gonna happen, so here you go.

Dunn...

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Side channel: Rambling about Tyan boards

I'm getting Making Video withdrawal so here's a video.

Over the last four weeks I've written at least 50,000 words on five different subjects and none of it's producible; at least, not at the...

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Xoftware Review: Final (Copy) [Edited] (4).xlsx

I've uploaded a new version, this should be final. The only change is that I tempered the comment about Wayland. Sorry to anyone who left comments on the last version, feel free to leave em again.<...

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All good

Surgery went well, no surprises except, apparently, a *second* hernia. Not a big one I don't think and both are fixed now. Belly is uhhhhh a "just a little sore" haha. Will keep you posted. Thank y...

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Health Update / Hiatus

Warning: Descriptions of medical issues, anatomy and surgery.

Hey folks. I've alluded a couple times recently to Health Problems I was dealing with. Figured I should tell you what that's abou...

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Solaris Solicitations

Anyone out there who used Sun (or similar workstations e.g. microvax 3100) for their job, preferably (though not necessarily) prior to 1999? Would like to know what you us...

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Video: Quick Start, Episode 8

This is one I've been wanting to make for months. I explain in the video why I didn't make it sooner (it's my own damn fault) but I kept worrying that I wouldn't ever get to make it at all. It's no...

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Video: Five Phone Stories (Finished!)

Alright, this is the finished version. Thank you so much to everyone who chimed in on the video and the patreon post, you caught a LOT of mistakes - I don't think any were major, per se, b...

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Rough cut: Five Phone Stories

Okay, this is one that I'm actually happy with and absolutely planning on finishing for normal release, but I wanted to put out the rough cut first because I'm hoping some of you can check my work....

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Video: Response Point For Real This Time

After most of a year I've finally decided that the Response Point video is fit for public consumption, so here it is. It's not terribly different from the roughcut other than the inclusion of all t...

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Video: (final) Linear Editing

This should be the final version of the linear editing video, so feel free to leave YouTube comments. Thank you to everyone I have not replied to yet on Patreon, all of your feedback on the other p...

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Video: Linear Video Editing

Hey everyone, here's a video. Once again the comments are off because I made several egregious errors, so I will be re-rendering and re-uploading, but I figure I'll release it on Monday so I have a...

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Behind the scenes: Compositing setup

Was setting up for a video yesterday and realized folks might be intrigued by how I do my on-set preview setup - I'm sure I've mentioned some of this before, but I don't think in this much detail. ...

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